{"id":3020,"date":"2010-07-14T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2020-10-21T19:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T18:54:38","slug":"the-willie-john-mcbride-seal-of-approval-stonebridge-restaurant-richill-co-armagh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/the-willie-john-mcbride-seal-of-approval-stonebridge-restaurant-richill-co-armagh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Willie John McBride Seal Of Approval! Stonebridge Restaurant, Richill, Co Armagh."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie John has reached the age of 70,  its been a hectic two weeks and hot on the heals of a special Wooden Spoon lunch to mark his birthday, he still finds time to complete a food review at Stonebridge Restaurant, Richill, Co Armagh.<\/p>\n<p>We arrived in only 30 mins from Belfast, on a brilliant summers evening to the fantastic setting only a stones throw from the historic and beautiful village of Richill. <\/p>\n<p>Rugby country for sure and the owners of Stonebridge are firm friends of Armagh Rugby club, with John McNally picutred here with Willie John involved in team managment of Armagh RFC.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stonebridge-mixers-and-dukes-hotel-060.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stonebridge-mixers-and-dukes-hotel-060-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stonebridge mixers and dukes hotel 060\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stonebridge is a superb restaurant and the food on the night did not let us down. An excellent choice, and expertly chosen to match the summer season.<\/p>\n<p>Our selection included<\/p>\n<p>Homebaked bread platter<br \/>\ngarlic aioli\/ tomato chutney\/olive &#038; pepper tapenade<br \/>\nwith pat\u00e9  or with prawns<br \/>\nThree cheese tartlet dressed rocket &#038; spinach\/roast pepper &#038; tomato salsa<br \/>\nGarlic field mushrooms<br \/>\ngarlic &#038; parsley cream \/ grilled ciabatta<br \/>\nPan roasted fillet of seabass<br \/>\nspring onions \/ fennel \/ Hollandaise<br \/>\nLamb shank<br \/>\nhoney roasted vegetables \/ thyme &#038; port jus<br \/>\nBlackened fillet of salmon<br \/>\nbuttered greens \/ Chablis &#038; dill cream<\/p>\n<p>All were superb and the presentation and service added that extra special touch to our experience.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a word from our guests Willie John &#038; Penny McBride<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very good food, we enjoyed that immensely, and having been to Stonebridge before we knew we would!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to our host for the evening Tracy Whiteside for making our visit to Stonebridge realxing and enjoyable, we will definitely be back.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stonebridge-mixers-and-dukes-hotel-054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stonebridge-mixers-and-dukes-hotel-054-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stonebridge mixers and dukes hotel 054\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2456\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stonebridge Group<br \/>\nSally McNally\u2019s 91 Markethill Road, Portadown Tel: 028 3884 0230<br \/>\nThe Stage Bar Bistro Market Place Theatre &#038; Arts Centre, Armagh Tel: 028 3752 1828<br \/>\nStonebridge @ The Park Drumbo Park Greyhound Stadium, Lambeg Tel: 028 9061 0070<br \/>\nGirona by Stonebridge @ The Ulster Museum Botanic Gardens, Belfast Tel: 028 9044 0061<br \/>\nStonebridge Restaurant 74 Legacorry Road, Richhill, Co Armagh Tel: 028 3887 0024<br \/>\nTo Visit the Stonebridge Restaurant Website &#8211; Click Here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie John has reached the age of 70, its been a hectic two weeks and hot on the heals of a special Wooden Spoon lunch to mark his birthday, he still finds time to complete a food review at Stonebridge Restaurant, Richill, Co Armagh. We arrived in only 30 mins from Belfast, on a brilliant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2411,2410,938],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-stonebridge-restaurant","tag-tracey-whiteside","tag-willie-john-mcbride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631795,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/631795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}